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vinyl box set....vinyl box set.... awesome band. saw them close out the Peanut Butter tour in my hometown with Modern Life Is War. show ruled, wicked setlist, and they actually played I Am Hollywood for the only time i ever saw them.

so true lol, they have some pretty BAD stuff but the Jade and Hoppyum is about as good as it gets for a middle of the road IPA. as you say very solid, you can pound that stuff pretty efficiently. i too am really fond of the Jade. i'm heading back to Wilmington tonight and I can't wait to grab a few bottles. i'll check out those other brews you mentioned!

i was in Florida a couple weeks ago visiting friends and i came across some Dogfish Head World Wide stout, pretty cool to see it out and about, I would've loved to try it but at like $40 for four bottles I couldn't justify it. i dig Dogfish and would've loved to take down a 20% stout but ehhhhh, if i was in my hometown i might've since i could've saved the bottles. my preference is likely IPAs/pale ales or stouts but i'll drink everything else from barleywine to or cerveza, even malt liquor has its time and place in my life..... to namedrop another one of my favorite lesser known breweries, anyone here have anything from Maine Brewing Company? They don't ship far out of the north east but every type of beer they have, from porters to stouts to their several pale ale variations, is mind blowingly good. they need to start getting out some six packs instead of just single bottles, i can't wait to make my annual trip to northern tundra this summer and pick up a bunch of bottles at the brewery.

i think i've caved, will probably pick this up in the next couple days.

wow i've never heard of anybody having that intense a reaction to butane extract, i'm not a huge fan of it purely because i don't like the method as compared to just like, smoking a joint, but most people will just throw up and pass out as far as really bad reactions go. from what you wrote it sounds like you took a tab of L and actually were 'tripping,' although in all of my experiences with hallucinogens i've never experienced the 'i'm dead' sensation, maybe because i've never made a big enough jump in dose increments. that sounds insane though, more like you smoked Salvia than just oil, pretty intense that it can illicit that reaction....do you smoke much otherwise?

you should check out some sort of support group if you legitimately have a problem, there is almost certainly an applicable one- spendthrifts anonymous lol?- otherwise just sell this shit on ebay. i don't have a stance on flipping, i try to re sell at a fair and solid price myself, but enough stuff is bought and sold at a profit in our country on a constant basis that it seems sort of silly to get bent out of shape about what is so obviously the sort of same inevitability that allows us to rejoice in collecting music on giant wax Frisbees in the first place. that said, you shouldn't be surprised by this reaction, and you shouldn't play the victim. you should man up and take responsibility, its not like people here are accusing you of something you didn't do, if you don't want to deal with it sell it on ebay. or sell it here and take the flak you will inevitably get. i think pitying yourself like this is the WORST thing you can do, at least in my eyes, i mean shit just put up your email and never check back here if you must, but don't cry about how you just want to be part of the community. its a messageboard, not a community, and the aspects of it that actually ARE communal are the ones that you are directly opposed to (trying to sell/help for fair prices etc.) a waste of time even typing this but lets not start a pity party over THIS.

yeah for that price i already snagged it but you know daddy could stand to receive that clear lol, seems sort of fitting given the black/white schemes on the first press and the fact that this one has a cover. i have a black copy from the first press that i bought from a guy like 6 months ago when some copies went back up randomly, and strangely, it had none of the damage that has been mentioned elsewhere in this press, despite still being in its PVC slip.

Young Machetes is probably my favorite Blood Brothers album, and I worship the band's whole discography. That record is so fucking weird and awesome. some of my fave BB songs, Dream Unicorn, Rat Rider, AK-47....yes please. i guess i can see how people would be turned off by them, but i don't know how they would've topped Burn Piano Island without overhauling their sound a bit, that record is basically the classic BB sound pushed to the limits. head wound city rules pretty hard too.

sorry if this has been posted before, but anyone dig Fugue? they have since broken up but one of the most UNREAL instrumental bands i've ever heard, and they were basically high schoolers too which makes it all the more insane. i know at least Derek from TWIABP was a big fan, some seriously crazy shit, they had one 7" single that you can probably still get your hands on: http://fugue.bandcamp.com/

soooooo do you guys think the amazon will be clear, or is that just the first /1000 copies?

tempted by a lot of that zappa, love seeing Roxy and Elsewhere.

sorry to hi jack the thread, but if anybody from TE sees this, you guys still trying to put out State Faults (Brother Bear's) Head in the Clouds EP? That EP rules, that band rules, and I had heard that previously from both the label and the band but nothing since....hoping it hasn't died off!!!!

juno soundtrack i'd list some more but nothing really comes close to that. that goddamn michael cera/ellen page cover is so bad. i still have no idea why i bought it.....i remember getting it in a Bull Moose in Sebago Lake ME and passing up a copy of SOAD's memzmerize picture disc for it.....brutal.

love cassettes, am stoked

Anybody from North Carolina ever have Foothills brewery? They have some seriously fantastic IPA's, definitely a brewery I see far bigger things for in the coming years.

in every thread for every DW release there are at least a few people who inevitably come up with warped records or split jackets or whatever and then complain about it and usually get a replacement which they rightfully thank tre for. its not uncommon for labels to do a slight overrun and i see lots of posts related to that on this forum. i've never returned a warped record, probably because i'm so lazy, but i have been pretty lucky with all my warping being minor. i did have a copy of kezia that came split in half, and unfortunately i never got around to taking the pictures that were requested for a replacement, which is a bummer in retrospect. pretty stupid on my part, hardly the worst. the warping in that picture looks pretty severe, probably enough that i would like to get a replacement copy, maybe after trying to flatten it out. in any case, its probably not a matter of a shitty turntable or thicker skin, i don't think you were attacking him, but your remarks are a little surprising considering how often people complain about poorly received records. my ctts bronze/ochre just came in with a slight warp, looks fine though. i'm not saying that you should expect a label to just de facto make it up to you but i bet most will if you inquire into them. people can be anal enough about minor jacket damage that i'm not really surprised someone would be a little bummed that half their record is tilted up an extra 45 degrees.

not sure if i'd commit to that shipped price, but where is the pink one? i can't seem to find it

definitely fair enough dude. i mean i'd agree with you lol, i NEVER listen to buckethead, or much shred in general. i'd agree on vai too, even though i find his playing to be super impressive, and passion and warfare is a pretty outstanding album as far as shred goes, i would way rather listen to springsteen or coltrane or morbid angel, basically anything that isn't a shred guitar album. because as a self indulgent person, i love self indulgent music, but shred really takes wanking it to a whole new level. still though, as a guitar player, i can't help but respect a player like Buckethead, and especially Vai. i think even Vai's success is pretty marginal, considering how talented the guy is as a musician. and again, i don't really listen to him, and i wasn't alive when he was really making his name as a guitarist, but from what i've read, he had a level of skill even then that was rarely matched. Zappa himself, who yea i totally agree with you is basically God, was in awe of his "little italian virtuoso," and would have crowd members bring up sheet music on stage that Vai would have to transpose to different keys on the spot while he shredded through it, having never seen it before, and he would always be able to do it. he was Zappa's "stunt guitarist" who played all the stuff that was too technically difficult for Frank to play. i guess my only point is that from a purely musical standpoint, like his phrasing and playing and eventually all the crazy tones and techniques he laid out on Passion and Warfare, its almost impossible not to respect Vai for me, even though he is a goofy pretentious fuck who makes generally lame music. and you consider how insanely good the guy is at playing the guitar, but then how little renown he has compared to a jimmy page or an eddie van halen, or Randy Rhoads who only had 2 really recognized albums but have some of the best solos ever, and yeah its probably all because shred is a genre that, as you say, lacks songwriting. its totally true. like Yngwie liked to compare the style of music he played to Paganini, which is a joke. its like, the over produced guitar tones, the ridiculous images, the personalities, Satch's stupid beanies and sunglasses.....those are staples of the genre lol. i haven't listened to enough of Buckethead's stuff to really talk on him, but i'd check out his album Electric Sea, at least a track off it. its got some pretty beautiful composition on it, though sure i'd rather listen to Satie or Debussy instead. i think i agree with most everything you say, i guess i just wanted to recognize the gray area between artist and aesthetics that exists in shred because its all so ridiculous. i mean the fact that a guy who wears a KFC bucket on his head makes some of the most artistically credible shred around should point out how ridiculous the genre is. i don't know if this is accurate, but it seems to me a lot of Buckethead's recognition came from his very brief stint in GnR, and he's still very much a "guitar player" magazine musician. good old shred, i deny listening to it or liking it even to myself, but then i'll have a smoke and listen to Becker's altitudes and think 'wow, this is pretty sick.'

i'd be worried that it would degrade my dick's ability to do its job.....

lmao probably someone on this forum. have fun getting your $600

hard movie to pin down, could be considered 'scary' but moreso its just fucking brutal. beautifully shot, incredibly written, ultra creative genre bender that mixes lots of well known genres/tropes to create what is essentially a horror/thriller with a few detours into black humor. watch the youtube trailer, you'll want to see it. you get the feeling that the heart of the movie is basically a void but its really damn entertaining. there is a lot of violence against women in the movie though, its all pretty ridiculous and thankfully there aren't any graphic rape scenes, buts its probably not a great choice if that is a sensitive subject for you. otherwise, i'd say dig in. i'd also second whosthehotfrog in that Lady Vengeance is awesome (it has a really hard to watch scene though), but i think I Saw the Devil is probably the pinnacle of this style of South Korean film. Kim Ji Woon is incredible, soooo much variety in his films. If you're just looking for a great time, The Good, the Bad, and the Weird is another awesome movie of his, very hysterical and has Lee Byun Hun (the good guy in I Saw the Devil) playing an incredible villain. edit: oh and the main character in Oldboy is the villain of I Saw the Devil, and as you can imagine he too turns in a totally unreal performance. probably one of the most evil characters in anything i've seen or read, right up there with Judge Holden.

this seems too obvious but its not the original Buffy is it?

Golden Sun is awesome. I remember my cousin playing FFVII and spamming through all the text cutscenes/dialogue. He LOVED it but had no idea what was going on in the game, it was truly baffling given how huge of a JRPG fan I am.

awesome movie, i'd check out I Saw the Devil too. Another South Korean director who is unreal, its probably even more of a head fuck than Oldboy in terms of sheer experience.

no offense, but this comparison just seems a little silly. i mean really, gg allin? it sounds like you just don't like "gimmicky" musicians, which is the usual thing people bash a musician like buckethead for, and which is fine and i mainly agree with, but Buckethead isn't even that gimmicky. the image is stupid, sure, but he's not even that popular and he's far from the first musician to do something dumb like that. people definitely don't like vai because of his goofy look. people like Vai because he is a virtuoso who played with Zappa when he was practically a kid and released some of the best instrumental guitar albums of his day (as good as Becker, Lane, and all the prior 'shredders' were, nobody had really released an instrumental album like passion and warfare. its not quite EVH revolutionary, but there is tons of guitar playing on that album that nobody was really doing like Vai). he's kind of a weird guy sure, but all the shredders have a pretty stupid look and personality. probably because they play shred guitar, which even as a guitar player, sucks pretty bad. personally, and again i don't like shred, but i think Batio is way more of a clown than buckethead. at least buckethead seems to 'get' to an extent how ridiculous the genre he plays in and loves it. john 5 is the same way to a lesser extent, dude just plays the music he loves and has a good time doing it. all of them are basically 'guitar magazine' players but Batio's music way worse, and his playing i'd consider more tasteless. at least Buckethead changes his sound substantially. Batio also takes himself really seriously because he prizes the one thing he can do so much: speed. i'd say in general artistic identity is far more complicated than something that can be reduced to "he's popular because X" or "now he's changed his style because of Y," and even moreso a lot of the truly brilliant musicians walk a fine line between being ridiculous and serious. if anything, i'd wager buckethead is intelligent enough to 'get' that wearing a bucket on your hand doesn't really make you any more ridiculous than wearing a tophat and Shades and referring to yourself as Slash. again, i respect your opinion and your entitled to it, i just wanted to make a case for buckethead's appearance because i too used to be very turned off by it. i mean Frank Zappa is endlessly more talented than any of those guys, and yet people don't even realize how utterly insane his compositional abilities are given that he's up on stage singing about titties and beer and piss snow cones. and people didn't take him seriously during the PRMC bullshit at first because of his "hippy" image and absurd sense of humor. but Zappa was a genius and didn't even do tons of drugs. and most people STILL remember him as the guy who wrote 'the yellow snow' song. its not exactly uncommon for truly brilliant artists to exist in these realms that seem ridiculous to us, and i'm not saying that's the case for buckethead, but i wouldn't write him off purely because of his look, ESPECIALLY not in favor of a guy like Batio.